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He's no good to us dead.Everything Boba Fett • Since 1996
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Zuckuss is a insectoid looking bounty hunter seen in on the bridge of the Executor hired to find the Millennium Falcon, but this is not the only time his path would cross with Boba. He was also in a group of hunters who tried to steal the captive Solo from Fett on the Slave I, only to be held captive and later used as a pawn by Fett.
Zuckuss would later be identified as having multiple personalities and being a danger to himself and others.
Zuckuss along with his partner 4-LOM are often the victims of mistaken identity having their names confused by many star wars comics and figure packaging. In addition Zuckuss was initially a human in the ESB script.
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Jane Levy, 22, who often draws comparisons to Emma Stone, stars in ABC's smart new hit Suburgatory.
Her Favorite Bag
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A Barack Obama supporter in North Carolina admitted to me this afternoon that he wrote a now-controversial Facebook comment in which he stated that he had already voted four times and was planning to vote a fifth. During the same conversation, however, he steadfastly denied having violated election laws or having plans to do so.
I became aware of the comment authored by someone named Jim Turner after a conservative blog with which I am not very familiar published a post featuring a captured image of the comment, the text of which appears below (minus names of the actual towns he named):
I have voted once in (name of town #1), once in (name of town #2), twice in (name of town #3) and will vote in my precinct in (name of town #4), I will do whatever it takes to save our country from the world envisioned by Mitt and his fear mongering followers. I do not want my granddaughter to have to re-fight the battles won by women 40 years ago or to make less than my grandson for performing the same work he does. This election is not about taxing the wealthy. It is about the American spirit and caring for our fellow man. Let's continue to move forward, not slip in the dark past.
Above the image was a link to the Facebook page of the Jim Turner alleged to be behind the comments. When I visited that page, I found no evidence of the controversial comment but did read a comment containing words that seemed to reference the controversial comment. The words that appeared in the second comment are shown below:
"I posted a comment to Jami's page earlier today and it now lives in cybersomewhere. I can't seem to get with the whole facebook thing. I made bold comments on the future of my grandchildren under a Romney presidency and now it is gone. I think my comments were deleted as part of a conspiracy inspired by some who see our national glass as half empty."
When I looked for someone named Jami on the aforementioned Facebook page of Jim Turner in North Carolina, I found a "friend" by that name but nothing in the form of any recent, publicly-visible posts or comments by anyone named Jim Turner.
Still curious to learn more about this particular Jim Turner, I searched for him by name and city, careful to confirm that any address shown for him was also the address listed for his wife, a woman he describes in a section of his Facebook page as his "high school sweetheart." I was amazed at what turned up.
By clicking on one of the search results, I was lead to an Obama campaign website where I found this statement: "Join us at the home of Jim and (wife's name) Turner to make calls that will help re-elect President Obama." Below the statement was contact information(i.e., home address and phone number) for Jim Turner and his wife.
After I confirmed that the phone number shown matched one I had found on an online phone directory, I used it to try reaching Jim Turner. After several tries today, I finally reached him at approximately 2:45 p.m. Central.
As stated above, the Jim Turner with whom I spoke admitted to writing the controversial comment but vehemently denied having actually voted more than once or having plans to do so. When I changed the subject and asked if he and his wife have hosted any phone bank sessions for the Obama re-election effort, he politely ended our two-minute phone conversation without answering that question.
Editor's Note: Turner told me he has received death threats as a result of this controversy. Because I do not condone death threats or harassment of any sort, I removed several links and other information from this piece so as to make it more difficult for anyone wishing to do harm to Turner to reach such an objective.
"BY HOOK OR BY CROOK" UPDATE 11/03/2012 at 7:36 p.m. Central: NAACP operatives invade polling station in Houston.
"BY HOOK OR BY CROOK UPDATE 11/04/2012 at 8:16 a.m. Central: 538′s Nate Silver predicts Obama win.
UPDATE 11/04/2012 at 1:03 p.m. Central: It appears that more than one news outlet has let the "genie" out of the bottle; therefore, I'm offering links to their stories here, here and here. Note, my story is the only one that mentions the phone bank angle.
UPDATE 11/04/2012 at 9:17 p.m. Central: So many conservative sites are sharing news about Jim Turner, but I remain the only one to share news about him hosting phone bank sessions for the Obama re-election campaign. Now, I've added the photo above with Turner's address and phone blocked out.
UPDATE: Turner was cleared of wrongdoing, according to this report.
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The January 2013 issue of the Fuel Cell Technologies Office newsletter includes stories in these categories:
Former Michigan Governor and clean energy advocate Jennifer Granholm poses with the DOE's Fuel Cell Technologies (FCT) Office Director Sunita Satyapal at DOE's Energy All Stars Event on January 19. Fuel cells like the one she is examining are being used to generate portable power for soldiers in places like Afghanistan and will soon be manufactured in her home state of Michigan. The FCT Office acknowledges the U.S. Army's Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center, who provided the fuel cells for the event.
Part of Inauguration Weekend, the DOE-hosted Energy All Stars event featured prominent energy leaders outlining what our energy future can and should look like, and steps that can be taken to achieve that vision. Watch these incredible presentations.
An interview with Brian Larsen, a materials scientist at the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory and one of the recipients of the 2012 Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) Postdoctoral Research Awards, is currently posted on the Energy Department's blog.
Read the blog entry to learn about Larsen's work on developing the next generation of fuel cell catalysts and how the research award has impacted his career. Application to the 2013 EERE Postdoctoral Research Awards Program is currently open and will close on February 28, 2013.
On January 16, EERE Assistant Secretary Dave Danielson name Eric Miller, FCT Hydrogen Production and Delivery team member, as one of the newest Energy Rock Stars. Eric was recognized for his overall industry leadership; in particular in assembling the Hydrogen Production Expert Panel of key leaders, which produced high-level recommendations for DOE on R&D needs, and how to achieve commercial-scale low-carbon hydrogen production for a cleaner energy future. Congratulations Eric!
The Department of Energy has issued its FY 2013 Phase I Release 2 Funding Opportunity Announcement (DE-FOA-0000801) for the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Programs. Issued by the Office of Basic Energy Science, Topic 6 is "Hydrogen Dispenser Technologies." Qualified small businesses with strong research capabilities in science or engineering in any of the research areas sought in the announcement are encouraged to apply. Applications are due February 5, 2013.
Updates and future announcements will be posted on the FCT financial opportunities website.
The Energy Department will present a live webinar on February 12, 2013 highlighting Argonne National Laboratory's (ANL's) development of advanced electrocatalysts for PEM fuel cells, including rational design and synthesis of materials for cathodes. Materials development, based on fundamental principles, is used to produce Pt-Skin structures with unique nanosegregated compositional profiles for electrodes that meet the demanding performance requirements of automotive applications.
Register to attend the webinar.
The Energy Department presented a live webinar on Thursday, January 17, highlighting the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's (NREL) Wind-to-Hydrogen project findings. The webinar focused on cost modeling of optimized central wind-based water electrolysis production. Through a recent project, NREL analyzed the cost of hydrogen production via wind-based water electrolysis at 42 potential sites in 11 states across the nation. Slides and a recording of the webinar are now available.
Visit our website to see webinar archives or workshop presentations.
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Program reports on activities and progress in its recently published 2012 Annual Progress Report. This document contains individual reports from projects funded by the program, summarizing the innovative work of scientists, engineers, and other experts from industry, academia, and national laboratories.
Published on January 4, the Fuel Cell Buses in U.S. Transit Fleets: Current Status 2012 report from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) shows that the fuel economy of fuel cell electric buses is 1.8 to 2 times higher than conventional diesel buses (4 mpg) and compressed natural gas buses (3 mpg). This demonstrates significant fuel economy improvement toward the DOE and Federal Transit Administration's (FTA) target of 8 mpg (diesel equivalent).
The Hydrogen Safety Best Practices Manual is an online manual that captures the wealth of knowledge and experience related to the safe handling and use of hydrogen that exists as a result of its extensive history in a wide variety of applications. The purpose of the manual, prepared collaboratively by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Los Alamos National Laboratory, is to share the knowledge gathered from numerous experts, public domain documents, and references in an online, easy-to-use manner.
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There are a few steps involved in cutting an object using the CNC machine.
- Object design and export
- Conversion to machine instructions (GCode)
- Preparing the material and workspace
- Loading the design to the CNC and preparing the machine
- Cutting
- Cleanup
You will want to design your object using a software that can export to a format that is standard for a CNC toolchain. These formats are
Programs that are known to work well:
- Inkscape (DXF)
- OpenSCAD (STL)
Converting intermediate format to gcode instructions go here.
PyCam / PyCad ?
CamBam ?
Rhino ?
Preparing your workspace
- Load your cutting material on the platform.
- Secure it.
- Make sure you are not obstructed.
- Know the location of the emergency stop button.
- Don eye and ear protection.
Load your design
- Plug a USB stick containing your GCode into the controller machine. Load it with Mach3.
- Power on the motors.
- Zero the machine.
- Make sure everyone is wearing protective gear.
- Turn on the router and the dust collector.
- Make sure you can stop the cut at any time by the emergency stop or using Mach3.
- Begin your cut.
- Turn of the machinery.
- Unload your material.
- Take off your protective gear.
- Clean the work surface.
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Farfalle with Lemon Scented Ricotta, Sugar Snap Peas and Oregano
Author Notes: The Farmer's Market this week was full of exciting new vegetables. "Firstly, garlic scapes are here." I also had some lovely sugar snap peas that I bought from our trip to the country. I decided to make a pasta with lemon ricotta, sugar snap peas, fresh oregano, and the garlic scapes. It was truly delicious :D - Nicole Franzen
Serves 2
- 1 box farfalle (half for 2 people)
- 3 cups sugar snap peas
- 2 cups ricotta cheese
- 1 lemon
- 1 garlic scape
- fresh oregano
- chile flakes
- olive oil
- ~First, blanch the sugar snap peas. Do this by heating a pan full of water to a simmer, and adding the sugar snap peas for just about a minute or two.
- ~Take your 2 cups of ricotta and place in a bowl. Add the zest and juice of one lemon. I used fresh oregano because I love the combination. Add a pinch of chile flake, fresh ground pepper and sea salt. Mix thoroughly.
- ~Cut the garlic scapes into thin slices. I put mine in my mortar and pestle, and added a touch of salt, and olive oil. I ground it into a paste. You could also use a blender, food processor, or feel free to just use thinly sliced pieces as well.
- ~Cook your farfalle or choice of pasta to directions and set aside to cool.
- ~I cut the sugar snap peas in half, and tossed them with the farfalle. I then added my ricotta, garlic scape paste, and mixed thoroughly. Season with salt and pepper according to your taste.
- This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Spring Vegetable Recipe
Tags: farfalle, fresh, lemon, oregano, pasta, ricotta, snap peas, Summer
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almost 2 years ago sbf-ct
Tried this last week for a summery alternative to rice and great use for in season snap peas... DELICIOUS! And my 3 year old LOVED it! Thanks!
almost 4 years ago cheese1227
Lovely photo. I've only done ricotta with red sauced pastas. This changes my focus.


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Visual explanations: images and quantities, evidence and narrative
Graphics Press, 1997 - Architecture - 156 pages
Riveting ideas on presenting better information design. Few would disagree: Life in the information age can be overwhelming. Through computers, the Internet, the media, and even our daily newspapers, we are awash in a seemingly endless stream of charts, maps, infographics, diagrams, and data. "Visual Explanations," the latest book by Edward R. Tufte, a Yale design professor, is a navigational guide through this turbulent sea of information. The book is an essential reference for anyone involved in graphic, Web, or multimedia design, as well as for educators and lecturers who use graphics in presentations or classes.
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GREER The public is invitd to a float down the Mohican State Scenic River, help clean up a stream, and participate in a worldwide event. Saturday, May 19, serves as the date for the international Ready, Set, Wear It personal flotation device (life jacket) event, and the Knox County Park District has signed on as an event sponsor. In May 2011, 1,685 people gathered at more than 99 Ready, Set, Wear It events held around the world (37 U.S. states and territories, six countries).
Those who attend can join the fun and be part of thousands of boaters worldwide that helps beat last years world record. The event will begin at 10 a.m. at Greer Landing Access (20839 Brinkhaven Road) and will end at the Bridge of Dreams in Brinkhaven. Prepare to get wet, bring water, a life jacket and snacks, and wear sunscreen. ODNR Division of Watercraft staff will provide boating safety information and will teach participants how to properly fit a life jacket. Army Corps of Engineers staff will display the remains of a boat that went through the Mohawk Dam in Coshocton County to show the consequences of strong currents and large water flows.
According to Kim Marshall, director of the Knox County Park District, Paddlers that have never made the trip from Greer to Brinkhaven on the Mohican River are in for a treat. Bald eagles frequent the area, and the remote, forested hillsides make for a wilderness-like experience. The Mohican River was the 13th designated State Scenic River in the state, owing to its high quality habitat and natural characteristics.
Eight canoes will be available, or participants can bring their own canoe or kayak. To register for a canoe, contact Natalie Pirvu, ODNR Division of Watercraft, at 740-548-5490. Gloves and trash bags for litter removal along the float will be provided, as well as transport back to Greer. This is a great opportunity to clean up the environment, meet fellow paddlesport enthusiasts and break a world record!
In case of dangerous weather or hazardous water levels on the event date, check www.knoxcountyparks.org for updated event information the morning of the float. For more information contact the park district at 740-392-7275.
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Flood of donations mean smooth sailing for Sarasota student
Date: October 15, 2009
by: Robin Hartill | Community Editor
At 8 a.m. this morning, Dennis Matthews, director of marine operations at Longboat Key Moorings Marina, read the story of Molly McKinney, a 17-year-old competitive sailor whose boat was stolen Oct. 6 from Sarasota Sailing Squadron. The Pine View School senior had returned from a trip to Stanford University, in Palo Alto, Calif., to find her boat stolen.
Steve Petty, president of the Longboat Key Club Marina Condominium Association II Inc., was at Lowe's this morning when Matthews called him to ask if slip owners could help. After hearing McKinney's story, Petty wanted to take action.
"We can't help everybody that's ever had a boat stolen," Petty said. "But this isn't just someone with a passing interest in sailing."
Petty made calls to other slip owners, who agreed to help McKinney, who bought the $5,000 boat just five weeks earlier with money she had saved. Meanwhile, Matthews was e-mailing with Longboat Key Club and Resort General Manager Michael Welly, who also read about McKinney and wanted to help. Matthews contacted Ullman Sails owner Doug Fisher.
By noon, they had a plan: The Key Club Moorings Marina and the association would each contribute half of the cost of a new boat, and Ullman Sails would sell them the boat at cost.
At the same time, Matthews was scrambling to find support to get McKinney a boat, McKinney got a note from the office, saying Sarasota police had found her boat on Lido Beach. McKinney later learned that it was damaged. And she also learned from her mother, Barb Lewis, that people wanted to help her buy the new boat.
After school this afternoon, McKinney headed to the Sailing Squadron and thanked Matthews and Petty. She doesn't have her new boat yet, because Fisher needs to determine what boat would be the right fit.
McKinney, who hopes to attend Stanford and sail competitively in college, said she was surprised that so many people were willing to help.
"I just can't wait to get back on the water," she said.
And, although McKinney will have a new boat, her old boat will also get back on the water. The association also pledged to pay for repairs to the damaged boat, which will be donated to the Sarasota Sailing Squadron.
Contact Robin Hartill at email@example.com.
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The Military Orders
Part Two: The Hospitallers
Although the Knights Templar was the first and most famous of the military
orders, much of their fame today is tied to their dramatic fall. But the ultimately
most successful and important of the military orders was the Templars' great
rival, theSovereign Military Hospital and Order of St. John of Jerusalem,
or the Knights Hospitaller.
The Order's precise origins have been obscured in legend and romance, but precede
both monastic knighthood and the Crusades. All accounts name the founder as
one Gerald or Gerard Tum (also referred to as Tune, Tenque or Thom). Gerard
was likely born at Amalfi around 1040, and had come to Jerusalem with a merchant
caravan sometime prior to the First Crusade. This is where accounts begin to
differ. In some, Gerard was a merchant, in others, a soldier. Some claim that
he chose to remain in Jerusalem, and assumed the management of an Amalfian hospice
within the pilgrim's quarters of the city. This hospice was staffed by Benedictines
and dedicated to St. John of Alexandria. But other accounts say that he built
a new hospice and infirmary just outside the Holy Sepulchre, and dedicated it
to St. John the Baptist. Regardless, his title as founder is attested to by
a contemporary official document, the Bull of Paschal II of 1113, referring
to him as the founder of a hospice of St John the Baptist. This was renewed
and confirmed by Calixtus II shortly before Gerard's death in 1120.
However Gerard's hospice came into being, it flourished with the establishment
of the Kingdom of Jerusalem in 1099. Grateful pilgrims bequeathed the
hospice with territory and on-going sources of revenue, enabling Gerard's
successor, Raymond of Provence (1120-60), to build newer, larger buildings
around the church of the Holy Sepulchre. He also shifted the focus from
travelers' hospice to hospital. Strictly speaking, therefore, the Hospitallers
of Jerusalem began with Raymond of Provence. Raymond wrote the Order's
Rule, based on that of the Augustians, which established the Order's first
goal as the permanent maintenance of a hospital, staffed at its expense
with five physicians and three surgeons, with the monastic brothers serving
as attendants and administrators. There was no mention in the Rule about
knights or military duties.
As the hospital continued to grow and thrive, Raymond added a second
innovation: an armed escort to protect pilgrims. He drew this escort from
newly arrived, European knights andturcopoles(light cavalry,
recruited from among the natives of mixed blood). Raymond also created
the first two military offices: amarshal, to command the knights,
and aturcopolier, for the turcopoles, to manage this private army.
It is unclear precisely how this military attachment transformed the entire
organization into a military order, but it was probably inspired by the
growing fame and prominence of the Knights Templar, who has been established
in 1119.
The Templar's influence on the growing Order of St. John was obvious. Like
the Templars, the Order was exempted from all authority save that of the Pope,
paid no tithes and owned its own buildings. Like the Templars, as the Hospital
expanded beyond its Jerusalem headquarters, the Order establishedpriories,
which were further subdivided intobailiwicks, comprised of multiplecommanderies. Although these commanderies were always established around
a hospital, they were also carefully designed as a military instillation. Finally,
the Hospitaller knights followed their Templar brethren in adopting a distinctive
habit: a white "e;Maltese"e; cross on a black surcoat or cloak. In warfare,
this mantle might be exchanged for a red surcoat with a white cross.
The Knights of St. John of Jerusalem (c.1090 - 1291)
By the mid-12th century, the Hospitaller knights were clearly considered
"e;military brothers"e;, co-equal with the infirmarians and subject
to the Rule of the Order. Although nothing in the Rule gave precedence
to the knights when determining overall leadership, it was perhaps inevitable
in a warrior culture that the martial arm would come to dominate the Order's
administration. Beginning with Gosbert, the fifth successor to Raymond,
all of the Order's grandmasters were knights, and routinely led the knights
into battle personally. Nevertheless, the first specific mention of military
service was not appended to the Rule until the statutes of the ninth grand
master, Alfonso of Portugal (c. 1200). Alfonso made a clear distinction
between confrere, secular knights who served for a pre-specified time
(usually of one to seven years), and monastic knights, who took the same
three vows as the infirmarians. Chaplains, or ordained priests, formed
the Order's third division.
By the time the Kingdom of Jerusalem reached its height under Kings Baldwin
III, Amalric and Baldwin IV (1160s - 1180s), the Hospitallers had over
140 estates throughout the kingdom, and over ten times that number in
Europe. They also built or took command of seven massive strongholds,
including the impenetrable Krak des Chevaliers, the most famous and impressive
of all the Crusader fortresses. Originally built by the Syrians of Aleppo,
during the 1170s the Hospitallers expanded it into the largest fortress
in the Holy Land, creating a concentric castle by adding an outer wall
three meters thick with seven guard towers eight to ten meters thick,
and adding a dry moat and barbican. The fortress held about 50-60 Hospitallers
and up to 2,000 turcopoles and foot soldiers. The Order's grandmaster
lived in one of the towers.
The Temple and the Hospital were both military Orders, headquartered
in Jerusalem, and with similar, papal dispensations, so it is no surprise
that a fierce rivalry developed between them. Unfortunately, this rivalry
played its own part in destabilizing the Crusader kingdom. Kings and generals
were reliant upon the Orders' combined might, but they also had to navigate
the jealousy and competition they felt for one another. On the battlefield,
each Order demanded to be given the most perilous posts - the van and
rear guard. Of these, the vanguard had the most prestige, so it became
impossible for a commander to simply assign one Order to the rear and
one to the van without someone taking offence. Peace could only be achieved
by having the two Orders alternate who held which position. While this
achieved political peace, it added needless complexity to the kingdom's
military organization.
After Saladin captured Jerusalem, the Hospitallers only remaining Levantine
possessions were in the Principality of Tripoli. They lost these a little
over a century later when Acre fell in 1291. Fortunately, as with their
rivals of the Temple, the Hospitaller's great wealth and European possessions
allowed them to survive the loss of their Asian possessions. Still wealthy,
well-armed and well-numbered, the Order retreated to the city of Limassol,
on the island Kingdom of Cyprus, where they already had possessions.
The Knights of Cyprus and Rhodes (1309 - 1522)
Although King Amaury Lusginan had granted the Order a new home, the knights
quickly found themselves drawn into the internal politics of the island kingdom.
Guillaume de Villaret, the 24th grandmaster of the Order, determined that the
only way to protect its autonomy was to acquire a desmesne of its own. He chose
the island of Rhodes, which was under Greek Byzantine rule. Guillaume died before
further plans could be made, and the conquest of the island passed to his successor
and nephew, Fulk de Villaret.
Besieging an island required the knights to transform from a cavalry-based
army to a naval power. Fulk proved up to the task, equipping the Order with
galley fleets, built on the Venetian model. The attack on Rhodes and its surrounding
islands was launched in 1307, and the island capitulated two years later. The
Order of St. John had a new home.
Although considered the same Order, the Knights of Rhodes differed in practice
from their Jerusalem-based antecedents in many ways. Firstly, the Order was
now a temporal principality, with the sole responsibility and authority over
its island territories. Secondly, the Order now found itself a naval power,
with a unique position between Latin, Greek and Muslim territories. Rather than
protecting pilgrim routes, their new role was to patrol seaways; their galleys
giving chase to Muslim sea pirates, and in turn praying against Turkish merchant
The third change was the Order's sudden rise in wealth and numbers with the
unforeseen suppression of the Templars in 1312. This required the Order to reorganize
yet again, dividing itself into "e;nations"e;, priories and commanderies.
Each of the eight nations, loosely corresponding to an existing kingdom, was
led by one of the eight senior officers of the Order. The grandmaster was elected
from these eight officers, and ruled from Rhodes. He had supreme authority,
but ruled with a curia regis comprised of both the leaders of the eight nations,
and a local "e;supreme council"e;. Each nation was subdivided into three
priories, and the priories were divided into 656 commanderies.
The Knights of Rhodes used their new wealth to build an impressive navy. Throughout
the 14th century, they progressively turned from naval patrol to raiding Levantine
coastal cities, targeting the wealthy ports of Egypt, which the Mameluke sultans
proved powerless to stop. But in the 15th century a new power arose in the Orient;
the Ottoman Turks. With the fall of Constantinople in 1453, the Ottoman Sultan,
Mehmet II, decided to turn his attention to the Order, which was now the largest
threat to Muslim ships.
The Order found itself waging a defensive war for its survival. After
years of skirmishing, in 1480 Mehmet personally led an attack in with
50 ships and 70,000 men which struck at Rhodes itself. Bolstered by reinforcements
from France, the Order repulsed the invaders and broke the siege. Their
success bought the knights another two generations of military stalemate.
But when the Ottomans returned in 1522, the new Sultan, Suleiman II, determined
to overwhelm them with sheer numbers. Rhodes was besieged by a fleet of
400 ships and an army of 100,000 - 140,000 men. Against this horde, Grandmaster
Pierre d'Aubusson had a force of 7,000 men. Only the Venetian garrison
at Crete answered his call for aid. The Knights resisted daily onslaughts
for six months. By the end of November, both sides were demoralized, exhausted,
and suffering from disease. Suleiman offered the citizens peace, their
lives and food if they surrendered, versus a promise of torture, death
or slavery for continued resistance. On 22 December the inhabitants of
Rhodes accepted Suleiman's terms. The knights were given twelve days to
leave the island and allowed to take their weapons and any valuables or
religious icons. Native islanders who wished to leave were given a three
year passport off of the island, and those who remained were granted a
five year exemption from taxation. Finally, the Sultan forbade his troops
from desecrating any churches, or converting them into mosques.
On 1 January 1523, the remaining knights and soldiers marched out of
the town in full military order, armed and armoured, with banners flying
and drums beating. The show of strength belied the reality; the ships
they boarded had been leant to them by Suleiman himself. They sailed to
Crete, accompanied by several thousand civilians. The second phase of
the Order's history had come to an end, but it was about to once more
rise like a phoenix.
The Knights of Malta (1530 - 1798)
After the flight to Crete, the leadership of the Order came to Sicily, which
was then under Spanish rule. The grandmaster appealed to Charles V to provide
his Order with a new home, and was granted the island of Malta, along with the
cities of Gozo and Tripoli. In Malta, the knights swiftly built a small fleet
of galleys and turned to fighting the Barbary pirates. As nominal vassals of
the Spanish king, they proved useful in aiding Charles V in his expeditions
against Tunis and Algiers.
The Ottomans were not happy to see the Order resettled, and in 1565 a new expedition
was launched against Malta. The island's 700 knights and 8000 soldiers were
besieged by an invasion force of about 40,000 men. Initially the siege seemed
destined to be a repeat of Rhodes, as the Turks seized half of the island, slaughtered
about half of the knights, and destroyed nearly the entire old city. But as
the siege dragged on throughout the summer, the tide slowly turned against the
Turks, and disease ran rampant through their camp. The siege was broken in September
by a relieving Spanish army, thereby giving the Hospitallers the victory. The
retreating Turks are said to have left with more than half of their army slain.
A new city was built, and named Valette, in memory of the Order's grandmaster
who led the island throughout the siege.
While the knights would also gain renown for their aiding of the Venetian fleet
at the great naval battle of Lepanto (1571), which decisively broke Ottoman
sea power, these were the final great deeds of an Organization which had endured
for over half a millennia. After Lepanto, the history of the Knights of Malta
becomes nothing more than an endless series of inconclusive raids and naval
actions against the pirates of the Barbary Coast. Many charged that the Knights
became little more than corsairs themselves, rescuing Christian slaves and selling
those captured Turks that were deemed unsuitable to rowing in one of the Order's
galleys. Certainly, slaving became one of the largest enterprises in Malta,
and both the island and the Order slowly gained a reputation for decadence.
In 1581, Grandmaster Jean de la Cassière was the victim of a revolt by
his own knights. Their principle demand was enforcement of the vow of celibacy
and the expulsion of the concubines and courtesans that were found throughout
the capital. Outside of Malta, individual commanderies became increasingly autonomous,
the knights carving out small, island fiefs for themselves.
The overall decay of the Order was probably hastened by the Protestant Reformation,
as large swathes of the Order's property were confiscated by Protestant nobles,
particularly in German-speaking lands. With the Order's power weakened and its
prestige badly damaged, even Catholic monarchs began to encroach upon the commanderies,
absorbing a territory and recasting it as a monarchical, ceremonial "e;knightly
order"e;, while keeping the local treasury for themselves.
In the end, Malta did not fall to the cannons of the Turks, but in a bloodless
betrayal by its own grandmaster, Count Ferdinand von Hompesch. On 12 June 1798,
Napoleon Bonaparte asked for the right to harbor and resupply his ships during
his expedition to Egypt. Once inside Valletta, Napoleon turned on his hosts,
and von Hompesch immediately surrendered the island and all of the Order's holdings.
His defense was the rather hollow argument that the Order's Rule forbade fighting
against fellow Christians. Von Hompesh resigned his position and abandoned the
island in disgrace, signaling an apparent end to the Knights of St. John.
And yet, the remnants of the Order persisted, rising from the ashes as it had
twice before. While over 90% of its holdings had been lost, and there was no
grandmaster, individual commanderies persisted, mostly in Eastern Europe, where
the Order had found a patron in the Russian Czar. When the Order was summoned
to attend the first of the Geneva Conventions (1864) it was recognized as both
a military and humanitarian organization, and given an equal seat with the other
nations of Europe. This set the stage for Pope Leo XIII to reinstitute the office
of the grandmaster in 1879. At that time, the pope also reaffirmed the conditions
for admission to the Order: membership in the Catholic faith, nobility of lineage,
attainment of full legal age, and a recognized integrity of character. The Knights
entered the 20th century with a return to their roots as humanitarians and medical
personnel, based out of four commanderies: three in Italy and one in the Czech
Republic. In the final years of the 20th century, the Order was allowed to return
to the island of Malta, and established its headquarters in the Fort St. Angelo,
on the escorts of Valletta.
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Nicholson, Helen J.,The Knights Hospitaller, 2001
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Tenison, EM.,A Short History of the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem: from
its earliest foundation in 1014 to the end of the Great War of 1914 - 1918.
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Prices of Rare Cigars Skyrocket at a Christie's Auction in London
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Just after Thomas Bohrer bought the last lot in the May 20 cigar auction at Christie's in London--a box of 50 Cuban Diplomatic Trinidads for $8,000--he turned and said to a friend: "This is just the beginning. Prices are not going to go down. They are going to keep going up like fine wines. These are cigars that people will never see again. So, they are worth the high prices."
Bohrer, who flew from Hong Kong especially for the sale, bought about 15 percent of the nearly 250 lots of cigars auctioned at the sale. He bought just about every category of smoke, from a cabinet of 50 Davidoff Chateau Mouton-Rothschilds from the mid-1980s for about $7,300 (converted from the British pound) to a box of 25 corona-sized La Corona Prince of Wales from the 1930s for about $1,800. All the cigars he bought will be added to his already impressive sales catalog for his Hong Kong company, Habanos Holdings, which specializes in trading in hard-to-find cigars for private customers located primarily in the Far East.
The total of the Christie's cigar sale eclipsed $500,000--a record for a commercial cigar auction. Buyers and sellers came from all over the world, in addition to hundreds of commissioned bids and telephone bids during the sale. One of the biggest buyers was an anonymous bidder from the United Kingdom, whose purchases included a box of 25 Davidoff Dom Perignons for about $9,000, and 20 Davidoff 80th Aniversarios for close to $8,800. An anonymous U.S. buyer seemed to have an affinity for the torpedo-styled Montecristo No. 2s, buying four boxes from 1973 for about $2,600 apiece, as well as a box from 1949 for about $8,100.
"I am amazed by the turnout," said Edward Sahakian, the well-known owner of the London Davidoff cigar shop a few minutes walk from Christie's. He sat through the sale but didn't buy anything due to the high bids. "I am also in a state of shock over the prices."
Only the third major commercial cigar auction ever (two with Christie's in London and one with Sotheby's in Zurich), the May 20 sale may be remembered as a benchmark for fine and rare cigars. It should firmly establish an after-purchase market for cigars, similar to the trade in art, antiques and fine wines. "It has definitely set values for aged cigars," said Simon Chase, marketing director for Hunters & Frankau, the U.K. agent for Cuban cigars. "Sure, it was the buzz and excitement of the sale that helped set these prices, but it was a confirmation of the quality of mature Cuban cigars. It also shows that there is now an investment benefit to cigars."
Until recently, aged cigars--mostly old Cuban cigars--were either traded privately among cigar collectors or sold in charity auctions in Europe and in North America. The auctioned cigars were primarily what aficionados call pre-embargo, meaning they were made in Cuba before the U.S. government imposed an economic embargo against the island in 1962. (The term pre-Castro is often used interchangeably, though technically the designation excludes cigars made after Castro seized power in 1959.) These cigars occasionally sold for hundreds of dollars apiece, although no one was sure whether such high prices were paid for their rarity or for the charity involved.
Selling cigars is nothing new for auction houses in England. Some houses offer cigars in their wine auctions, usually as a service to someone who is selling their wines. In December 1994 in Zurich, Sotheby's, with the help of Geneva cigar merchant Gerard Pere et Fils, auctioned more than 100 cigar lots during a wine sale. (The U.S.-owned Sotheby's has dropped plans for further sales since its directors wish to avoid running afoul of embargo laws.) In a major departure in December 1997, Christie's offered close to two dozen cigar lots in its Finest and Rarest Wine sale instead of its secondary sale in South Kensington, London. Prices were high for a number of cigars in the sale, including a box of 25 pre-embargo Montecristo No. 2s that sold for about $6,600, but they were nowhere near this spring's exorbitant prices.
With Sotheby's on the cigar sidelines, Christie's for the moment has a monopoly on cigar auctions. "Christie's has been selling cigars for 100 years, but we have never had such a large selection of cigars as today. This is the first of many cigar auctions Christie's will do," said Christopher Burr, director of Christie's international wine department, during a post-auction fine wine and cigar bash held at the neoclassical palace of Spencer House. "I am hugely excited by the results."
It's not only good public relations selling cigars. It's good money. Christie's not only makes 10 percent from the buyer of the cigars, but usually another 10 percent from the seller. Brian Ebbesen, also with Christie's wine department and a keen cigar smoker, believes that a steady supply of rare cigars still exists in the market, although perhaps at a lesser scale than fine wines. He plans to have one or two major cigar sales per year. "I am already receiving calls from people offering me various cigars," he said. "I have been offered everything from currently available Cohibas to perfectos from last century."
If May's auction is any indication, Cuban Davidoffs and Dunhills are the most popular rare smokes. These brands haven't been made in Cuba since 1990, and they are becoming extremely difficult to find. Nearly all of those lots in May's sale sold for two or three times Christie's estimates. A box of 25 Chateau Latour Davidoffs brought about $3,800, nearly three times the estimated price. Twenty-five Davidoff No. 2s sold for just over $1,800; the estimate was $740. A half dozen boxes of 25 Dunhill Cabinettas robustos sold at about $4,600 each, more than double the anticipated $1,980 per box.
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Post the Panda, Penguin and EMD now its the turn of Zebra from Google! The Google zoo animals are let loose around the web to counter and clean up all the mess out there in the form of SPAM. The initial search algorithm updates from Google were aimed at thrashing spam and low quality websites and to an extent the above three updates did a real good job in cutting down unworthy links from the search listing.
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War-torn Syria took another hit Thursday when almost all of its Internet access was shut down.
All 84 of Syria's IP address blocks became unreachable around midday Thursday local time effectively knocking the country's international Internet connection offline, according to networking firm Rensys.
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Syrian residents also reported that mobile and telephone lines were disrupted, according to Reuters.
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But forces trying to overthrow President Bashar Assad have used Internet sites like YouTube, Facebook and Twitter to post information about their fight.
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